Chapter 33: The Vanishing Creed
The goshawk soared in the air, and the sky slowly drew the sun to the west. The gray creature kept going in circles, as if searching for something. As twilight fell, the howl of a lone wolf could be heard outside the window.
Luna looked up at the eagle through the narrow, stone-like crevice, and her thoughts had already crossed the mountains and rivers: Alice, how were the others? Did the guards spot them? Or were they arrested as well?
Luna clenched her fists subconsciously, but now she couldn't feel the touch of her sleeve. If the Sleeveblade was still in her hand, maybe her current situation wouldn't be so embarrassing.
Thankfully, they didn't let Luna take off her armor so she could rely on it to keep warm, but all of her electronics were paralyzed by the EMP bullet, and now that the spare batteries in her PS armor were dead, she had no protection.
Luna looked up and down in thought, and after a while, her eyes fixed on a corner of the wall, it was a diffuse red light, Luna quickly subconsciously touched the back of her neck, and then Luna was surprised to find that the VR limiter on her neck was not affected by the EMP.
Luna hurriedly clicked her finger on the projection screen, then pressed her other hand against the wall, and then a microcurrent ran down her arm, causing Luna to bite her lip. After a while, a building appeared on the projection screen in front of her, which was a structural map of the castle, and every corner, object, and creature of the castle appeared on this living map without obstruction.
Soon, Luna discovers where the crumbs store her weapons, and she realizes that she is being held in the castle's tallest tower.
Luna clicked the red button on the top of the projection screen, which was an emergency call for help, which quickly transmitted her location to Adeline and left a message.
With the sound of a "drop", Luna began to speak into the air, "Adeline, Adeline, I'm Luna, and now I'm on the top level of Dragul Castle, if you receive this string of replies, please ......" Just then, Luna spotted a black shadow on the map that didn't match the blue of the background.
How is that place not recognized? Luna wondered.
Luna thought as she looked up at the goshawk outside the window, and now she could see every feather, every claw, fan-like tail feathers, black and white body like Mr. Mark's beard, and pure white wings.
Luna decided to try her idea, "Adeline, hear me, please don't come and rescue me, I'll meet you in three days on the banks of the Talmud in Osroni and ask you to evacuate immediately." With that, Luna left the window and took a look at the cell: a few planks of hard black wood were placed on top of what was supposed to be a bed. Naturally, there are no futons or the like, but there is a sub-table, which may be considered a preferential treatment.
There was no six-pointed star on the wall, and the empty table was filled with just a crude iron bowl and a spoon with a little porridge in it and a packet of compressed biscuits next to it, and it seemed that this was Luna's dinner. There was some water in the glass on the side, and it looked like it could be drunk.
Thirsty and hungry, Luna didn't choose to touch the food, after all, she was the one who wanted to escape, what if the food was poisoned? The other party is not a good person, and if they engage in some conspiracy, it is not good fruit for Luna.
Luna paced back and forth in the room, the rough stone walls giving him no chance of escaping, and with her bulky PS armor, Luna didn't want to leave the cell even half a step. If they hadn't figured out their escape plan today, it would have been three days before Adeline and the others would have gone to Osroni's cemetery.
Luna looked at her wrist and remembered that the Divine Soldier had smashed the shattered wrist armor and broken wrist blade to pieces in the ambush, and Luna couldn't help but sigh, thinking how nice it would be if Lucius could be by her side right now, he would be able to fix the broken iron sheet with three strokes divided by two. He had given Luna a bracelet called "Gryffind" when he left the Lexington, but what was it?
Luna pulls out the black bracelet from her waist, it's a good thing the gangsters didn't pay attention to my backpack, maybe it will create a chance for her to escape when she escapes.
But all this must be built on "one chance......
Well, everything is back to zero and let's get back to reality.
The reality is very skinny, Luna can barely think of any way, can't think of any means of escape, and has no way out but to wait for death. I'm afraid the gallows is the only stage she can get out of. However, Luna must now plan how to improvise.
Luna takes the time to relax and try to free her brain from the shackles of her thoughts. Luna suddenly felt a little comfortable, and then again, even though you are in such a desperate situation, it is also very comfortable to have a place where you can rest assured and no one forces you until the middle of the night......
At the head of this whole story chain is a letter from afar.
Two months after Cagalli's explosion, Luna finally got rid of her former self with the help of her friends, and she decided to completely integrate into the game of Operation Scavengers, and became the captain of the "Lexington" under the training of William and others, in order to hide her eyes. Luna doesn't return to Whartont for a while, and is left on the edge of outer space.
It wasn't until the other day that Luna made it back to Whartont on a small gunboat from Lexington, relying on the EMP barrier and the "mirage" system of the gunboat itself, and Luna managed to return there, where she made it to her second home, which had already fallen a centimeter of dust, but fortunately, it was not destroyed.
Luna walked into the room and went to the library where she had last seen Mr. Mark, where the books had been dusted for a long time. But she still remembers the tunnel switch on the wall.
Maybe if Luna hadn't returned that time, she would never have known about the letter. The letter in a leather envelope had been some month old, a letter from the vanished Mr. Mark to my father. That's what happened when Luna was rescued from Coldridge Mountain a year ago:
Frese Mansion
Whartont
November 2538
Dear General Hudson,
Hello!
General, I think you must be able to panic, because your daughter has been kidnapped, and you must be tempted to save her, but listen to me and maybe it will help you.
The forces of the enemy are gathering, and after the death of Queen Whartont, one of her men is trying to control the whole of Whartont and the whole world at the same time. So I decided to tell you one thing before that. More often than not, they are all absolutely confidential. Of course, if my fate ends here, please make sure that this secret is not revealed. If you can, please give your life.
In Osroni there is a prison castle called Dragu, which is one of the missing places in the ruins of civilization. A century ago, our ancestors built a huge basement there, where some of the crystallization of the civilization of the ancestors of mankind was located.
That's all I can write, the rest of the information is too important, try to let me tell you personally, you can't just put him on paper.
If you agree to meet me, I will tell you how to solve your daughter's problem. Time waits for no one, and we hope you can act as soon as possible.
Shadow Warrior Alliance"
The letter is accompanied by a photograph and a translation of an ancient document that has lost its image for some reason, but the translation gives Luna a great deal:
"What is that? Huge virtual image, and who the person who calls himself "Victoria" is. From time to time, people brought me food, perhaps to reveal something that would have left me long since I was out of this dark study. But I always felt that everything made me unable to return to normal research. The plasma ion comes from a meteorite that destroyed our human civilization once. But what is it? Virtual reality? And the artificial intelligence, creatures I've never heard of speak from the mouth of the self-proclaimed "Victoria" phantom. I always felt in my heart that they were a new type of weapon that threatened human civilization. Am I overthinking? Perhaps they are just a technological product of the future of mankind. Knowledge...... Forever in front of you, yet out of reach, it's so demagogic, so heartwarming, and so ethereal......"
It seems that Luna is not the only one who has received the revelation of "Victoria", and it seems that someone has received the same revelation as her.
Here the translations of the ancient documents were interrupted, the words behind them were blurred, and even the parchment had become extremely fragile by the erosion of time, touching the edges of the paper slightly. It will shatter and crack.
Luna only read a few parts of it, but it thrilled me. Every time I think of this, Luna's scalp floshes. Thinking about it now in Dragu Prison made her even more excited.
The appearance of that translation lingered in Luna's mind, and it was the decisive reason why Luna decided to set foot on Osroni.
The sky gradually darkened, the whole night gradually turned a deep blue, the snowflakes stopped falling, the night wind gently cut through the thin white mist, and the stars gradually appeared in the deep blue night sky.
For some reason, Luna remembered the woman in the hood in white, the woman who passed between life and death. Appears like a phantom and disappears like a ghost.
Her presence made Luna feel that it was no coincidence that I was here today, and that perhaps it was just a starting point.
Luna's immediate priority, however, is to stay in good spirits and be ready to flee tomorrow.
The night was silent, and the wild roar was heard again from the other side of the mountain.